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MAHAYANA:
PHILOSOPHY for SUSTAINABILITY.
(The following reflects author's own understanding of the terms "Mahayana" and "Bodhisattva").
Mahayana is a
view that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all phenomena
across all time and space, and that any one's well-being depends on
the well-being of every other being across all time and all space.
A Bodhisattva is one who strives to realize the ideal of Mahayana, and therefore regards
the well-being of all other beings as important as one's own.
To live ecologically and socially sustainably means to acknowledge
the need of all other beings to live well also.
The need for living ecologically and socially sustainably is
implicit in Mahayana.
Therefore an aspiring Bodhisattva would help all beings to be
mentally and physically optimally well, and therefore an aspiring
Bodhisattva would promote the way of living ecologically and
socially sustainably.
MEDITATION:
Find, or imagine that there is, a mental space in which all the ideas of what anyone might think that their future should look like would be reconciled with each other, so that conflicts in real life would be prevented from occurring.
Please dedicate your practice to the optimal benefit of all beings of all three times and ten directions of space, starting here and now on Earth.
Links:
Creating Peace
An Invitation
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